The Zero-Point Universe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781470033972)

Ray Fleming is a physicist who recognized in his undergraduate years that the mainstream physics model leaves many of the most basic questions unanswered while other theories contradict each other or even more basic laws of physics. That being the case it was too risky to pursue a career in academia where one has to be indoctrinated into the standard model and eventually lose the ability to think of anything else, so Ray chose to pursue a career in industry while conducting physics research as a pastime. Ray's career began as a civilian working in the US Navy nuclear power program, followed by more than a decade testing and designing X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) analyzers used for routine elemental analysis. In the last decade Ray has worked as a health physicist for the State of Texas eventually managing radioactive material licensing for the state. Ray is also a nationally known advocate for timely radioactive source disposal and public and worker protection from naturally occurring radioactive material, including most notably polonium-210 and lead-210. In 1990 as a new employee of a XRF analyzer manufacturer some coworkers introduced Ray to some papers by Dr. Hal Puthoff that attempted to show basic physics phenomena as the result of zero-point energy, the vacuum fluctuations that inhabit all of space. Ray knew instantly that zero-point energy was the answer as it was the only thing that is found everywhere in space, the only thing that could be the medium for all force transmission. So began a 25-year exploration into determining how zero-point vacuum fluctuations interact in each fundamental area of physics.